Re: You people.

[paul@laughton.com (Paul Laughton)]

Butch <bdopson@iup.cis.edu> wrote:

>What is it with championing ancient, obsolete OS's.  How many businesses use 
>Apple][ 's.  As a matter of fact, how many businesses used Apple][ 's in 1983, the 
>very infancy of the personal computer revolution

Butch,

1983 was not the infancy of the personal computer revolution. It was a
prospering child by then. The IBM PC had been out for a couple of
years, the Mac was a year old and Compaq was a yar old. The real
infancy started with the Altair in 1974. The Apple II was **THE**
computer that got people interested in personal computers for
business. In late 1979 Personal Softare (later VisiCorp) introduced
VisiCalc. VisiCalc made the Apple II a very viable and desireable
business tool. There was no computer anywhere that did what
VisiCalc/Apple II did (financial projection is an interactive visaul
manner). Once IBM saw what was happening with application, the jumpped
into the market.

-Paul